Mondo Club

In a basement on Rúa de Joaquín Loriga that had already been Radio K.O., Dalia, 007, and Goldfinger, producer Pablo Iglesias and his partner Miguel Forneiro opened a venue in 2008 against the grain of the crisis: a concert hall and nightclub in one, with music as the focus and without the single label of a party brand.

One venue, two floors

The shape of the building supports the programming. Upstairs, a room designed for live acts and more transversal dancing; downstairs, SUB, the floor dedicated to cutting-edge electronic music. This division—two independent environments, with audiences crossing paths in the early hours—allows a concert and a club set to coexist on the same night, or for the dance floor to drop into more radical sounds without stepping out onto the street. On the recent map of Galician electronic music, SUB is one of the few basements with stable residents and international guests.

From indie disco to contemporary club

The first decade oscillated between indie and the dance floor. The stage hosted such disparate names as Patrick Wolf, Najwa Nimri, Cycle, Shellac, Iván Ferreiro, Cristina Rosenvinge, Kase.O, Coque Malla, or Backyard Babies. After a deep renovation in 2019, the project shifted towards club sounds that cross genres. Iglesias himself describes a young, eclectic audience that is not prone to labels, filling the room from 2:00 AM. Viktor Flores, resident DJ and programmer, frames this agenda within continuous clubbing: electronic and urban sounds, residents and guests, week by week.

SUB, FLUX, and the dance floor that asks for no permission

On the ground floor, Viktor Flores, FonKid, and Malaguita play. The Yugen Kala brothers—Héctor and Nico Iglesias, with a stint at Sónar—curate FLUX, a cycle of experimental pop, gqom, and club electronics that has brought in Call Super, DJ Lag, Mumdance, and collectives like Ciénaga Electrónica. Outside of that cycle, Mondo has placed Danilo Plessow (Motor City Drum Ensemble) in the same booth with the SUB residents. The main room adds an audiovisual screen and stage; the basement concentrates the pressure of the dance floor.

Weekend on Joaquín Loriga

Today the venue operates as a club on Fridays and Saturdays—usual opening at 01:30, closing at 06:00—and as a live music venue for the rest of the agenda. In a northwest short on stable dance floors, Mondo Club maintains a weekly schedule that treats contemporary dance as venue culture: not a party that changes warehouses, but a physical basement, with a history of nightclubs behind it, where Vigo continues to go out to listen and dance.